Word: downrightness
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...audiences nearly everywhere are as big as or even bigger than Richard Nixon's or Hubert Humphrey's, and usually twice as enthusiastic. Often they are downright fanatical. Even in such relatively tranquil and liberal states as Connecticut, Kansas and Washington, Wallace support is abundantly in evidence. "We have no racial issues," says Washington's Republican Representative Catherine May. "Who are these people in a liberal state who will spend a buck for a Wallace sticker...
...sounds and prankish grotesqueries. Instead, the bad boy of Russian music seems to have found a new mood of lyrical quiet and contentment. His artistic debt to Sergei Prokofiev is as clear as ever-embarrassingly so at times-and some of his melodic writing in the first movement is downright dull. But the elegiac sweep of the middle adagio movement and the jauntiness of the finale compensate admirably for these shortcomings. The concerto is not quite a masterpiece, but Oistrakh and the Moscow Philharmonic under Conductor Kiril Kondrashin perform it as though it were...
...most Americans, mills spell work, dirt and drudgery. Eager to preserve the charming houses and churches of colonial times, they have seemed downright anxious to destroy their industrial heritage. "Unfortunately, the industrialist who was made by the mills is the guy who cares the least about them now," says Pierson, who was active in efforts to preserve the mill. "All he's worried about is how to make a profit. And the biggest obstacles to preservation are the elected town officers, from the mayor on down. They are tough, pragmatic and just don't care about conserving...
...Newspaper Editor James Kilpatrick on the Poor People's March: "All the visible 'poor' at Resurrection City appear remarkably well-fed. Some are downright fat. Most are young, ablebodied. Every man jack of them could find a job in Washington-carrying a hod, if nothing else. But work? Take jobs? Earn a living? Not this gang...
...what they called a "peaceful protest" last spring, Columbia's rebellious students seized control of several university buildings, held a dean hostage and rifled private files. But university punishment, they insisted, would be downright illegal. Rather than answer a summons to a disciplinary proceeding, five of them went to federal court...